claire mccaskill looked gone until a month ago, she has drawn the one opponent she could beat. >> part of the challenge that the republican party has is this tea party movement, far right, movement to the far right, it has undermined their party fundamentally. not the national republicans. it's that you cannot win in a state wide election with ideas that say, you know, student loans is like stage three cancer. you can't win by saying -- talking about legitimate rape and women having mystical powers. >> women do have mystical powers. >> i wasn't going to tell anybody. >> but some of -- and the problem that i think akin brings to the party is he kind of like opened the door to a lot of other candidates like paul ryan who's, you know, their vp nominee who cosponsored that legislation and to many other candidates who have similarly said, lots of crazy things that came in 2010. remember 2010 midterm election, smaller percentage of the electorate voting. this time because it's a presidential year you have more people voting and if you're running state wide that's more people who are not nece